Ben Platt & Rachel Zegler - THE LAST FIVE YEARS (NYC/LA) — Page 3

Went tonight. Was kind of bummed that they didn't have Playbills or programs. The space is definitely under-utilized, but there is also a limit to how much you can do with a two-performer presentation of a show. A good number of the audience members seemed to have no idea what was going on during the show based on some of the conversations I heard on the way out. It definitely isn't a show to see unless you know what the premise and structure is. That all being said, Rachel's voice is insane. I need her "Evita" ASAP!

I'm curious if performers or producers of shows ever put clauses in their contracts that another production of a show can't open for X amount of years after the current one closes?

Bringing this concert to NYC feels like it was meant as an insult to the people involved in the recent Broadway production.

Or is Sonia Friedman involved in this?

These are the expanded and revised orchestrations. I think the album sounds pretty great for a live album. The mix feels good and both leads sound great. Can't believe they recorded and mixed this in less than a month!

The Last Five Years is my second favorite musical of all time, and I've listened to just about every cast album and bootleg in existence. I think that makes me pretty qualified to say that Rachel Zegler gives the single greatest vocal performance I've ever heard for Cathy.

I asked JRB on Instagram, and he said these are the same expanded orchestrations from the Broadway production.